We really do become what we eat... physically... emotionally... mentally... spiritually... so I need to ask myself all the time... "Philip...what are you feeding yourself...?"

My sister fell several months back and explained to me how she was laying on her back in intense pain staring at her ankle... only the foot was going in the wrong direction...!

I was glad I was sitting down because I immediately react to anything like that by this weakness in my lower extremeties... I can't handle even the description of it... much less physically looking at any sort of horrific anything... we were given some actual video of the Rwandan genocide... because our daughter lives in Rwanda... I had to stop looking... I couldn't feed myself with that video any more...

I thought of the day Lawrence Taylor hit Joe Theisman in an NFL game on National TV... they kept showing it over and over and over... from every angle... you just sat there and watched his leg break in half... the scary part is... the more you fed that to yourself... the easier it was to watch... ever thought about that?

Last night Ellen and I watched the movie "Blind Side" again... I had totally forgotten that the opening scene was showing that hit on Theisman (over and over)...and how that totally changed the game... from that moment... quarterbacks had to be protected from being "Blind Sided"...

We need to as well... we need to be protected from getting blind sided...

Tomorrow, I will tell you a story from an ancient historian... about a man who was finally convinced by his friends to go to the Coliseum to watch the gladiators... I thought about myself... how would Philip respond... if he had gone to the Coliseum in Rome....

hmmmmm... I wonder....